Not currently on display at the V&A

Poster

1899 (made)
Artist/Maker
David Allen & Sons (printers (people))
Place of origin
London (made)
Great Britain (made)

Typographic.


Object details

Categories
Entertainment & Leisure
Advertising
Posters
Theatre
Object type
Poster
Materials and techniques
Printing Ink
Printing
Brief description
Poster advertising El Capitan at the Lyric Theatre, 1899
Physical description
Typographic.
Dimensions
  • Poster height: 50.9cm
  • Poster width: 31.8cm
Marks and inscriptions
Transliteration
Object history
Associated Production: El Capitan. Playwright: Charles Klein. Composer: John Philip Sousa. Actors: Mr. de Wolf Hopper, Jessie Mackaye, William H. Post. Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London. 10.7.1899. Performance category: comic opera.
Production
17 Leicester Street
Collection
Theatre and Performance Collection
Accession number
S.2842-1994

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Record createdJuly 27, 2010
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1163552/poster-david-allen/
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